Wired iMac on Airport

I have:
-Airport Extreme base station.
-G4 Powerbook with Airport Extreme running on a DSL network through the Airport LAN port (*it does not work through the WAN port*).
-Airport Express base station.
-Non-airport iMac.
Is it possible to connect the non-airport iMac to my network?
Thanks for any contributions to this topic.

No - not until you figure out why you cannot connect your DSL modem to the Base Station's WAN port, solve that problem, and connect the modem to the WAN port as it should be. By having the DSL modem connected to the LAN port, you completely bypass the router built into the Base Station. With the router bypassed, your internet connection will not be shared - so only one computer at a time can connect.
What have you done thus far to try to solve this problem? Most times when this problem happens it is due to the following:
1. not resetting the DSL modem's connection to the ISP. After cabling the modem to the WAN port, pull power to both the Base Station and the modem for five minutes or so. Then plug the modem into power and wait a minute. Then plug the Base Station into power and wait a minute before you try internet access.
A few ISPs require manual registration of any new device cabled to their network - and in such a case simply power cycling the modem won't be sufficient.
2. not configuring the Base Station for the correct connection protocol, which is determined by the requirements of your ISP. The choices will be either DHCP or PPPoE. Other protocols in common use outside N. America (like PPPoA commonly used in the UK) are not supported - and you cannot use a Base Station to share a connection directly with these ISPs.
3. not configuring the client computers to connect to the Base Station using DHCP. If a computer was previously configured to connect directly to an ISP that used PPPoE, its configuration must be changed to use DHCP so that it can now connect properly to the base station.
4. If your ISP uses PPPoe for client connections - make sure your Base Station is not running firmware version 5.6. If it is, downgrade to version 5.5.1, available on Apple's web site.
5. Some ISPs supply their customers with a "modem" that, in reality, already has a built in router. If an Airport Base Station is used with one of these "modems" then it should be cabled to the Base Station's LAN port and the router built into the Base Station should be disabled. What make/model is your DSL modem? That sometimes helps to sort out this issue.
6. there are a few ISPs out there that run systems which simply don't want to play with the Airport Base Station, even though in theory they should. For cases like this, the only solution is to buy a non-Apple router, and put it between the DSL modem and the Base Station. Though this sounds drastic, the low cost of a basic router sold at most computer shops (around $30) makes it hardly worth the grief trying to get a stubborn Base Station working as it should.
7. A defective WAN port. Very uncommon - but it happens.

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